ABSTRACT

This text is devoted to studies of the languages and cultures of the Cushitic-speaking peoples of the Horn of Africa. It is concerned with linguistics in a technical sense, and analyzes the oral literature of the people of the area.

chapter |16 pages

Nominal tone in Western Oromo

chapter |46 pages

Music and metre in Somali poetry

chapter |17 pages

Somalia’s horse that feeds his master

chapter |4 pages

Boqor: one word, two realities

chapter |8 pages

Songs from the South

chapter |13 pages

Notes on Afar verse structure

chapter |7 pages

Afar praise poetry: orowwaḥ